ibn Muslim differed from him, saying: “From Ṣadaqah Abū Muʿāwiyah, from Zayd ibn Wāqid,” with no mention of the fasting or breaking the fast.

Ibn Mājah recorded it (3409).

Ṣadaqah Abū Muʿāwiyah—namely, Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Samīn—is weak, unlike Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid—the Umayyad, Abū al-ʿAbbās—who is trustworthy. Thus, if Hishām preserved it accurately, the chain of transmission is sound, since his teacher, Zayd ibn Wāqid, is trustworthy and among al-Bukhārī’s narrators.

As for Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn, Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in al-Thiqāt, and two other trustworthy narrators reported from him. Al-Bukhārī said, “He heard Abū Hurayrah,” as stated in al-Tahdhīb.

I say: He mentioned him in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (2/1/157), where he then cited the report in suspended form. Aḥmad, however, gave it with a connected chain in al-Ashribah (68/153): al-Haytham ibn Khārijah narrated to us: Ibn ʿAllāq—namely, ʿUthmān ibn Ḥuṣayn (1)—narrated to us, from Zayd ibn Wāqid, who said: Khālid ibn Ḥusayn, the client of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, narrated to me: I heard Abū Hurayrah say: “I learned ... [the hadith].”

Al-Bayhaqī also gave it with a connected chain through another route from al-Haytham.

ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr corroborated him: ʿUthmān ibn Ḥuṣayn narrated to us.

Al-Nasāʾī recorded it (2/334).

This chain too is sound, for al-Haytham and Ibn ʿAllāq are trustworthy.

Zayd ibn Wāqid has another chain, more authentic than this one: Manṣūr ibn Abī Muzāḥim said: Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah narrated to us, from Zayd ibn Wāqid, who said: Qazaʿah narrated to me: Abū Hurayrah narrated to me the same report.